Various Artists - New Orleans Funk flac album

Check the title - New Orleans funk is not the same thing as New Orleans R&B or soul, so this may not be the sound that you're expecting. Even if it opens with the Meters, this isn't a compilation that plays to familiar sounds or expectations. Instead, it lays the groundwork for funk as it was known in the '70s or plays forgotten, possibly never-heard sounds from the '70s

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The music of New Orleans assumes various styles of music which have often borrowed from earlier traditions. New Orleans, Louisiana, is especially known for its strong association with jazz music, universally considered to be the birthplace of the genre. The earliest form was dixieland, which has sometimes been called traditional jazz, 'New Orleans', and 'New Orleans jazz'

New Orleans Funk, Volume 2, which spans 1962-1973 (one lone track, Art Neville's cover of Ellis McDaniels' "Bo Diddley" dates from 1956), is somewhat erroneously named; while some songs on the compilation would fall easily into the "funk" category, many are more traditionally soul and R&B with an especially funky touch. For all intents and purposes, New Orleans Funk, Volume 2 is a Toussaint compilation: it features many of his original compositions (one of his most covered, "Fortune Teller", written under the pseudonym Naomi Neville, is performed here by Benny Spellman) and interpretations (his cover of "Tequila", from 1969, imagines the song as a Cuban-New Orleans amalgam), and even those songs. that don't feature Toussaint in some way are arguably indebted to his writing and production styles.

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This Soul Jazz release is a definitive collection of New Orleans funk featuring acknowledged masters of funk (The Meters, Eddie Bo, Professor Longhair) next to some of the earlier artists who shaped the meaning of funk. The album is also filled with many rare, sought after and undiscovered funk tracks. It covers the period from the emergence of New Orleans funk in the early 1960's through to the mid 1970's. The album comes with a 40 page booklet presenting a historical explanation to how and why this music came about, and with lots of information about the people involved.

New Orleans music has gotten its due in recent years, thanks to everything from archival MP3 blogs (Home of the Groove is excellent) to Treme. Here, expert excavators at . label Soul Jazz focus on NOLA’s visionary nutters. Soul shouter Eldridge Holmes explains the good way to make whoopee, a sitar creases Lee Dorsey’s What You Want, and although she’s in a world of trouble with her man, Betty Harris sounds as merry as a funeral parade. This proves New Orleans was a wellspring of joyful and defi ant eccentricity. In This Article: Various Artists